Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine—Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile madeThe tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Sometimes I vocalize in the car. It's a good way to multitask. Although fellow drivers on the road think I'm craaaazy.

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.

Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.